In the "Records of History", Tai Shi Gong recorded several high-ranking people in xiangshu. For example, Lü Hou's father Lü Gong calculated that in the "Gao Zu Benji", when Liu Bang had not yet risen to the mountain, he saw at a glance that this rogue boy would become a great instrument in the future, and he had to marry his precious daughter to him. There was also a man named Sima Jijue, who was mixed up among the bu zheng, and one sentence could make the famous scholar Jia Yi faceless. But when it comes to the top people of the Han Dynasty, they are not counted, and in the eyes of Tai Shi Gong, only Xu Negative's Xiangshu is worth a big book.
Xu Wei was a native of Wen County, Hanoi County (present-day Wen County, Henan), and the daughter of Xu Wang, Ling Xu of Wen County. Sima Zhen composed the "History of Suo Yin": "Negative, Wen people of Hanoi, old concubine also." "Yes, she did live a long life, living to the age of Meng Shengren, 84 years old.
At that time, reading the "History of History" was relatively cursory, and I didn't even notice that Xu Negative was actually a lady, and for many years I absurdly thought that he was an old gentleman!
Ma Qian of the Taishi Company recorded two negative divine predictions, both of which were earth-shatteringly accurate.
For the first time, Xu Negative's prophecy was recorded in the "Foreign Relatives Family": "Concubine Xu Negative Phase, Xiang Bo Ji, Yun Dang is born of the Son of Heaven." ”
At that time, Chu and Han were fighting, and King Bao of Wei took Bo Ji, the daughter of his cousin Wei Mi, as a side chamber. Once, she invited Xu Negative to see her, and she predicted that Bo Ji would be the mother of the Son of Heaven in the future. The Wei king Leopard was overjoyed, believing that this matter should be on his own, so he united with Xiang Yu and betrayed Liu Bang, and as a result, the Wei king Leopard was destroyed by the Han general Cao Shan, and Bo Ji also became a trophy, and was accepted by Liu Bang as a concubine, and after a night of favor, the pearl fetus was secretly knotted, giving birth to the famous Emperor Wen of Han.
The difficulty of this matter is that at that time, the world was in chaos, the crowd was divided, the overlord hero was in the world, and the mountains and rivers were swallowed, Liu Bang did not show any kind of advantage, and who could unify the world was really uncertain. It can be seen that Bo Ji will give birth to a heavenly son in the future, which is indeed a different kind of kung fu.
The second time is from the "Zhou Bo Family of the Marquis of Qihou", which is recorded in more detail: "The Marquis of Qihou yafu was punctual in Hanoi since he was not hou, and Xu Negative Xiangzhi said: 'The queen is three years old and hou.'" Hou was eight years old as a general, holding the country's integrity, noble, and no different from others. He starved to death at the age of nine. Yafu laughed and said, "The brother of the subject has taken the place of his father Hou Yi, and he is like a pawn, and the son is contemporary, so why does Yafu say Hou Hu?" But if it is as expensive as a negative word, why say that it starved to death? Instruct me. ’
Xu Negative pointed to his mouth: "There is a rational entrance, and this method of starvation is also." 'When he was three years old, his brother Marquis Shengzhi was guilty, and Emperor Xiaowen chose the Marquis of Dai, and all of them pushed Yafu, and he made Yafu the Marquis of Dai, and continued to be the Marquis of Dai. ...... Capture the Marquis of Daihou... He entered the court. He died of vomiting blood for five days without eating. National division. ”
This passage can be understood as follows: Zhou Yafu, the son of the founding general Zhou Bo, did punctuality in Hanoi County, and asked Xu Negative to show him the picture (which shows that Xu Negative was already famous for being good at looking at the four sides at this time). Xu Negative concluded: "You, after three years, you can be a marquis, and after eight years of being a marquis, you must be a minister, under one person, above ten thousand people, and a very popular subject." But...... In another nine years, you will die of hunger. ”
Zhou Yafu laughed and said, "My eldest brother Zhou Shengzhi has already made his father a marquis, even if he dies, it should be his son who inherits, how can I get my turn to be marquis?" Besides, since my life is precious, how can I starve to death? So please make it clear. ”
Xu Negative pointed at Zhou Yafu's mouth and said, "You have a horizontal entrance here, this is a sign of starvation." ”......
Exactly three years later, Zhou Shengzhi was stripped of his title for his crimes, and Emperor Wen renamed Zhou Yafu as a marquis. Later, the Han Jing Emperor implemented a policy of cutting the domain, and the Rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms broke out, and Yafu was appointed as a lieutenant, and it took only three months to quell the rebellion. Emperor Jing, fearing that he was too powerful, changed his position to chancellor. But after all, emperor Jing wanted to clear the way for his successor, and found a less important excuse for Zhou Yafu's son to buy military weapons to accompany the burial, so he sent Zhou Yafu to prison. The mighty general who galloped on the battlefield did not want to be humiliated, and even died of hunger strike in prison.
Everything is as Xu Negative said. This incident is recorded in the history so conclusively, in addition to being amazed and astonished, what can we, the offspring, say?
Xu Negative was indeed a god, because it was really impossible to explain, and now some people even said that she was a person who crossed earlier than Wang Mang, and the official could listen to it as a joke.
"Xiang Shi", to see the fate of the profession, according to the person's facial features, temperament, bones, fingerprints, etc. can be inferred that their longevity, prosperity and death, auspiciousness, and misfortune. In history, there are many famous "Xiangshi", who know astronomy from above and geography from below, and some can even predict the future, such as Yuan Tiangang, Mai Monk, Liu Bowen and others.
Xu Negative's influence on later generations was extremely far-reaching, and the Xiangjing named after her was widely circulated. Liu Zhiji of the Tang Dynasty said: "To Ruo Xu negative "Xiangjing" and Yang Xiong's "Dialect", and at that time, it was important to see the transmission of customs. It can be seen that the most popular xiangshu in the Tang Dynasty is Xu Negative's "Xiangjing". Later, a total of 5 Pieces of Xu Negative Xiangjing were found in the Tibetan Scripture Cave in Dunhuang, although the book lists 13 authors of different eras, it is still mainly Xu Negative.
However, after thousands of years of circulation, some other records about Xu Negative are somewhat exaggerated, and we need to clarify them in addition to marveling.
The first question: Did Xu Negative seal the Marquis?
It is recorded that in 202 BC, the Han Dynasty was established and Liu Bang took the throne. Xu Fu was given the title of Marquis of Minghei Ting, when he was 19 years old. As a result, she became one of the few women in ancient China to be enfeoffed.
Doubt 1: There is no record in the history of zheng, "Gao Zu sealed Xu Negative as the Marquis of Minghei pavilion." This statement comes from Lu Jia's "Spring and Autumn of the Chu Han Dynasty" of the Western Han Dynasty, and Sima Qian used many historical materials in this book when he wrote the "Records of History". However, "Xu Negative Marquis" was not quoted, and I wonder if Tai Shi Gong thought it was not credible?
Doubt 2: Although Xu Negative's two divine encounters are recorded, xu negative is not given a biography in the "Records of History", is Tai Shi Gong selectively forgotten?
Suspicious point three: "Han Gaozu was enfeoffed as a marquis, but there was no lord of the township pavilion, and it is suspected that this title is not the case." Pei Songzhi once expressed doubts in the Notes on the Three Kingdoms, meaning that when Han Gaozu ascended the throne, all of his right-hand men were knighted as marquises, and at that time there were no such ranks as "township marquis" and "Tinghou". In the Eastern Han Dynasty, in addition to the county marquis, the duxiang marquis, the township marquis, the duting marquis and the pavilion marquis were added. This is the biggest question.
Suspicious point four: Even if Gao Zu gave a marquis, the name of this hou is also very strange, generally Hou and Tinghou and the like are preceded by place names, to indicate their fiefdoms and food, such as Zhang Liang's Liu Hou (the place where he met Liu Bang, that is, pei county in present-day Jiangsu Province), Xiao He's Hou Hou (present-day Yongcheng Town, Henan Province), others such as Han Xin's Marquis of Huaiyin and Zhou Bo's Marquis of Qi, etc., but the Marquis of Mingting, who was given the negative title of Ming, should be a place name, but after searching through the books, in addition to finding "the male bird uses the song to attract the female bird" such a one" Outside of the explanation of the animal world, I really don't know where the female is.
The second question: Has Xu Negative shown Deng Tong a picture?
There is no answer to this question in the Chronicle of History. The Book of Han, volume 93, "The Biography of Yu Xingchuan and Deng Tong", records the following:
"The Lord communicates with the good, saying, 'When the poor starve to death.'" Shang: 'Those who can be rich are in me, so why say poor?' So he gave Tong Shu Yan Dao Copper Mountain, and got it from the minted money. Tang's money is all over the world, and its wealth is so. and Emperor Wen, Emperor Jing, Deng Tong... He was not allowed to pay a penny and send him to the death. “
Emperor Wen of Han found a person who was good at looking at his favor, Deng Tong, to see, and the man who saw Deng Tong's face actually said that he would starve to death. Emperor Wen was not impressed, ha! If I let him be rich, he will be rich and oily, how can he starve to death? He really fought hard, and gave Deng Tong a copper mountain and let him cast money to spend himself. But Emperor Wen died, the patron fell, Emperor Jing came, and someone accused him of minting money outside the plug, so all of Deng Tong's money was confiscated, and he could only go begging, and finally starved to death in the street.
It is also very accurate to see, and some sources also say that Deng Tong and Zhou Yafu have the same horizontal entrance. However, the Book of Han did not say Xu Negative's name, and later generations took it for granted Xu Negative the task of being able to pass through the emperor's divine appearance.
Personally, I think that xiangfa is not an exclusive secret, there are also sources that xu negative when he was fifty years old, he asked Emperor Wen to resign and retreat to Shangluo Mountain, according to her birth time backwards, it should be around 171 BC, the "History" and "Book of Han" for people like Deng Tong are not willing to give an accurate life and death date, Emperor Wen is reigned from 180 BC to 157 BC, and deng Tong is favored by Deng Tong, so it is inferred that Xu Negative gave Deng Tong a very small chance of seeing the picture.
There is also a record in the "Chronicle of History" that Xu Negative: Guo Xie, a well-known ranger in the Han Dynasty, was her grandson. It can be seen from this that Xu Negative, the female xiangshi, should be real, and other deeds do not exclude the elements of posterity.
According to the "Chronicle of Huaiqing Province", Xu Negative wrote books such as "Song of Virtue Instruments", "Miscellaneous Treatises on the Five Senses", "Listening to Voices and Walking together", and "Xu Negative Xiang Ear Method", most of which were borrowed by others. For example, Zhou Lujing's "Sixteen Chapters of Xu Negative Xiangfa" in the Ming Dynasty was passed down as her work. In the preface he wrote: "Xu Negative, that is, Emperor Wen of Han ordered Xiang Deng Tong to also. However, the general transmission does not carry a negative reputation. ”
Reference Books: Book of Han, History, Zizhi Tongjian